Collaborative Training

Developing world-class experts

The Yale Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Scholar Program developed research skills across health fields. Junior faculty members learned through mentoring, coaching, and team science. The National Institutes of Health funded the program. The program developed independent investigators with the skills necessary to make lasting contributions to the prevention and treatment of addictive behaviors. The scholars who have graduated from the program earned research positions supported with grant funding.

Additional collaborations across Yale

Dr. Lisa Freed (left) of the Yale New Haven Hospital Women's Heart and Vascular Program

A special focus on sex and gender

WHRY also collaborated with the student editors of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (YJBM) to publish an issue on the influence of sex and gender on health. The issue came out in June 2016 with peer-reviewed articles on smoking, stress and depression; the effect of tobacco smoking on mothers’ brains; the preference patients show for the gender of their physicians in a hospital’s Emergency Department; the effects of gender-based violence on unwanted pregnancy and abortion; the effect of marijuana on the female reproductive system; and other topics.

Applying a forward-thinking medical curriculum

Currently, WHRY is collaborating with Dr. Njeri Thande, a cardiologist and Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine, and her team of medical students on integrating a focus on sex and gender into the YSM curriculum. Their goal is for instructors to teach the latest findings concerning sex and gender across the different disciplines, thus leading to better outcomes for patients.

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